Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 399d64b3ff8ad439…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-09-02 07:55:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 6f5dd2df1a400a8edc820c5cb198fa68 SHA-1: df7c55fcbb32550650d913a312af73a1aebf8899 SHA-256: 399d64b3ff8ad439e357c02c7d805d06d0bf3951199fc1f83a7cd9c3e831b7f9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a phishing or SEO poisoning attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://quiltingacademy.info/fckeditor/userfiles/file/tilusujud.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e6cb4a569a---30743544023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akapacha.com/userfiles/file/34212406119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.recetasyconsejos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d8657b0168---61787938961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mebelpozakazu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78c5011e9c7f7e4fa80bd9132d5154ec/pajapejamumof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gesundezellen.com/neu/userfiles/file/96301242208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nwatchonline.org/userfiles/file/nagiluporanolexenutigixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getadoc.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46181392997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rorolaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/nokodanubavumaligoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nobleorthodontic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20c2aa81813c7dd8f274cff04bc3ac5b/92348630485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.benyowsky.com/resources/files/28756415507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiofantino.it/userfiles/files/mebosepapopojuvevaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://israelonthehouse.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2274aa855c---26241882459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mwbright.com/upload_fck/file/2021-8-31/20210831020743559942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuaphatlailongthanh.com/upload/contentFile/minhchau/file/12550061036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romanakladatelstvi.cz/userfiles/file/jarivoleg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weddingceremoniesbybev.com/clients/72651/File/57259665994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cspdental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/047ee6c4f7e4f468b307feb586f8c5a3/4468272107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.likoda.com.tw/upload/ckimg/files/98672824399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chinahkcarplate.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f70e86bfff---bilokivewokekos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d573b28b02---93577317980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szaniterplaza.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6290108868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f4cf72785c---newipofivexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=stress+and+pelvic+floor+tensionPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e1e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1E0 19176 bytes
SHA-256: a2636f9910944d5705bfe4b226e15213415691ec9fdc8bc3292bb9f6de7ded88
font_01_sfnt_off000112c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112C0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012ad7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AD7 10752 bytes
SHA-256: fbbc2e6dbcd2243179592fae6f32788999c366ecb0b1902f37246aa3b87d5e41